"The makers of Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) have warned players about parking cars in garages in the game until a bug can be fixed.

Rockstar Games say they are looking into a glitch that sometimes causes cars to lose upgrades or completely disappear from safe houses.

In a support forum developers said they are "looking into" the problem.

"Unfortunately, we do not currently have a workaround to recover a car if it is missing," they added.

"In the meantime, please try to avoid parking a car in a garage, driving one already in a garage, or getting in a default vehicle, when playing as a character other than the one with your upgrades."

Grand Theft Auto V, which is set in "a satirical reimagining of modern Southern California", is the first game in the series that allows players to jump in and out of the lives of three simultaneously playable lead characters.

Rockstar suggested the issue may occur if players drive different characters' personal vehicles.

They added: "Also please note that vehicles saves in the garage of one safe house (Franklin's Aunt's) may not show up in the garage of a different safe house (Franklin's Vinewood Hills)."

It has been reported that GTA V has taken more than $1 billion (£624 million) in worldwide sales since being released on 17 September.

Rockstar suggested players should subscribe to their support site feed for automatic updates on the issue.

WolfbackGames

Sounds about right, I was expecting a patch to come out sometime soon regardless. After exposing the game to millions of people, bugs which made their way through testing are bound to show up. This garage issue, though I've never had any problems with it, is one of them.

DFW333

5 years in the making, extended the release date, and they let a problem like this slip by? Can't wait to see what they screw up in GTA:O

this is a FUCIKING huge game. You cant expect no bugs at all. come on dude,..

No bugs at all? He isn't saying there shouldn't be any bugs. This is a HUGE bug that should have been caught. This is not like a glitch on the backswing animation during a tennis game, or a wall that can be walked through. Those ARE acceptable because there's no way to test every single point of every wall in the game or so minor that no one will give a crap about it. As someone else has said this is the key to making a primary, heavily advertised feature of the game worthwhile. This is on the level of not being able to make the phone call to detonate the bomb in the prologue mission thus being stuck there forever. Maybe not in terms of game playability, but in magnitude of "should have been caught" this is the freaking sun in the sky.

How many hundreds of people have played this game in testing from start to finish with 100% completion, some focusing solely on specific aspects such as car mods and mission completion? The only way none of them could have encountered this error is that no one ever parked a car in a garage and later tried to use it again.

AP3X-_-K1NG

Although iv noticed that if you save a game in one of the safehouses, sometimes thats when they disappear. And no amount of loading brings them back. Also a couple of times i have upgraded there default cars and after a random save that car has reverted to its original state. Love the game but feel this is a mega bug they need to patch asap